EU: Lieberman’s Holocaust reference is inappropriate and offensive to Europeans
( Your feelings are hurt? Truth hurts. As does thousands of rockets being fired into your cities. – JW )
Ashton says ‘dismayed’ by FM’s comparison of EU’s policy toward Israel and the behavior of Europe during the Holocaust.
European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton condemned the comments made by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, in which he compared the EU’s policy toward Israel to the behavior of Europe toward the Jews during the period of the Holocaust.
“Mr. Liberman’s reference to Europe in the 1940s in this context is inappropriate and offensive to Europeans,” Maja Kocijancic, the spokesperson of Catherine Ashton, told Haaretz.
Kocijancic said Ashton was dismayed after she heard Lieberman’s comments.
“Europe’s commitment to Israel’s security cannot be questioned,” she said. “This was reiterated in the Council conclusions on Monday, as was our condemnation of inflammatory statements by Hamas leaders that deny Israel’s right to exist.”
In an interview to Israel Radio on Tuesday, Lieberman was asked to react to the EU foreign ministers’ decision on Monday to condemn Israel for advancing the plan to build in E-1.
In reply, the foreign minister launched into a fierce, and perhaps, unprecedented attack on the EU. “I can tell you what I am not satisfied with,” said Lieberman. “I am not satisfied with the position of Europe, which once again in history is ignoring calls to destroy the state of Israel … Europe is keeping silent. The call yesterday [Monday], what we saw, is not a condemnation of Hamas’ statements but rather a call to the heads of Hamas to refrain from incitement. We have already been through this with Europe at the end of the 1930s and in the 1940s.”
The radio interviewer asked Lieberman whether he is accusing the EU of anti-Semitism. “It isn’t an anti-Semitic motive but rather it’s a narrow motive of interests,” replied Lieberman. “They [the EU] are sacrificing all values in favor of interests. Then too, back in the 1940s. They already knew by the start of the 1940s exactly what was happening in the concentration camps, what was happening with the Jews and didn’t exactly act. Today they admit that even in the 1930s they prevented Jews for coming to the land of Israel.”
Later on Tuesday, during a Hanukkah candle-lighting event for his party Yisrael Beiteinu, Lieberman repeated his criticism of the European Union saying that the European foreign ministers’ decision against construction in the settlements was “unbalanced and unjustified.”
“From the point of view of some of the European foreign ministers,” he said, “the destruction of Israel is apparently something that is taken for granted.” Lieberman added also that “the European Union’s decision shows how much we can rely on those same countries that say that they guarantee Israel’s security interests.”
Hatnuah Chairwoman Tzipi Livni condemned Lieberman’s comments. “Comparing Israel’s situation today to the Holocaust is contempt for the Holocaust,” Livni said during a conference organized by the Jerusalem Post in Herzliya. “It’s an incorrect comparison, and incomprehensible. There is absolutely no similarity between the situation of Israeli citizens today to that of European Jews then. Not everybody is against us, and not everyone is anti-Semitic.”
Labor Chairwoman Shelly Yacimovich added her own criticism of Lieberman, as well as of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing them of diverting public discourse on the eve of elections from economic and social issues.
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WarSclerotic 
December 13, 2012 at 5:53 PM
The history of the europeans regarding the jews is a criminal one, to say the least. Nobody is enjoying when you are keeping to tell him how a piece of sh!t he is(and they are).
So, lady Ashton ”lemon face” should cool down and pay atention to her own problems, lets say, from the muslims who now are taking over in Europe. In our modest estimation, severe clashes in Europe between minorities and the locals are only a matter of time.
December 13, 2012 at 6:00 PM
this is already happening in the UK,the American right is arming the EDL,its just a matter of time before 1.6 million Muslims in the UK find out whos country it is,The EDL say the next terror attack in the uk and they will drive them into the sea.its very worrying,and our pc prick cameron and his gimps just encourage the rag heads with there sad and warped multiculturalism
December 13, 2012 at 5:54 PM
EU is warped and sick institution and the EU is behaving just like it did last time,prior to the second world war,it is disgusting,i am ashamed
December 14, 2012 at 4:56 PM
Intelligence analysts said the orders to prepare the weapons were issued about two weeks ago. They said it was not clear whether the decision came from senior Syrian leaders, possibly including President Bashar al-Assad, or from a field commander acting on his own, the officials said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/intelligence-on-syrian-troops-readying-chemical-weapons-for-potential-use-prompted-obamas-warning/2012/12/13/389dd7b4-44a2-11e2-8061-253bccfc7532_print.html
December 14, 2012 at 5:04 PM
Avigdor Liberman quits government
December 14, 2012 at 5:26 PM
Yes, Liberman is right and I don’t give a damn about her.
No doctor can fix moral depravity, but somethings can be fixed by modern medicine.
I just can’t stand her face, to put it politely.
She could do me a favor and visit a plastic surgeon.
December 14, 2012 at 5:27 PM
lol 😀
December 14, 2012 at 7:36 PM
A plastic surgeon with an axe.
December 14, 2012 at 5:59 PM
This might give you an insight into Cathy Ashton:
December 14, 2012 at 6:57 PM
Great video.
December 14, 2012 at 6:15 PM
German prosecutors say a radical Islamic terrorist group was behind this week’s attempted bombing at a railway station in Bonn – @AP
http://www.breakingnews.com/
December 14, 2012 at 6:47 PM
Radical Islam? Terror? What a surprise!
December 14, 2012 at 6:53 PM
Defence, I think most of us almost knew before this report that this was an islamic act because most terrorist acts are islamic.
Recently I heard about the attempted bombing on the radio news from “Deutschlandfunk”.
They are a pathetic excuse for journalism, a propagandist tool for the politically correct, mutliculturalist, antidemocratic.Israel-hating left that dominates now the European political culture.
They strange thing is: They reported, that this was an attempted terror attack but they said nothing about who the suspects are, which group they belong to, what their aims are or what motivates them. Nothing. Absoltely nothing
Its just stupid. Just terrorism…
The only difference between terrorism and any other act of violence is the motive of the perpetrator.
When someone classifies an act of violence as terrorism he must be able to answer atl least one of the above questions.
So at this point I was pretty shure that this was an islamic terrorist attempt because these apologist of islam do not want to tell the truth about the connection between islam and terrorism:
December 14, 2012 at 8:12 PM
Grim day in the US 😦